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Emotions ran high in the days following the 9/11 attack on the United States. For the most part, the grief and anger brought people together. But for Frank Roque it was a motivation for killing an innocent immigrant chasing the American dream.
It takes a lot of planning and skill to pull off an armored car heist in broad daylight outside a mall on one of the busiest shopping days of the year; Timothy Ring and his crew pulled it off, but never planned on how to get away with it.
What would motivate a man to brutally stab and drown his wife and the mother of his children? Scott Falater can't answer that question because he has no memory of doing so, claiming he was sleepwalking at the time.
At one point, Baby Gabriel's mother Elizabeth Johnson claimed she killed him; at another, she said that she gave him to a mysterious couple in Texas.
Jurors heard more testimony about how frantic Karen Read seemed to be at the scene where her boyfriend, John O'Keefe, was found. Kerry Roberts was one of the friends who was with her. She wrapped up her testimony for the State. Next, a friend who vacationed with O'Keefe a month before he died took the stand. Laura Sullivan formed a close friendship with the victim, so much so, that he became her son's godfather.
The jury listened to details about a trip to Aruba that happened a few weeks before John O'Keefe was killed. On this trip was the defendant and the victim, along with a number of family and friends. Two sisters who vacationed with Karen Read and her boyfriend. Prosecutors wanted to present evidence that the couple's relationship was rocky in the weeks leading up to his death. The State claimed this was part of the motive for Read to kill him.
Testimony took jurors back to the bar where Karen Read and her boyfriend, John O'Keefe were hanging out hours before he was killed. He would be found in the snow on the lawn of a retired Boston police sergeant. On the stand was ATF Special Agent Brian Higgins. He would later admit to jurors that he sent flirty texts to the defendant while she was with O'Keefe. Prosecutors hoped this would show that they had a rocky relationship before he died and help prove their theory of what happened.
An ATF special agent testified for the State. But he wasn't there because of his job. He was telling jurors about his connection to the defendant and the victim, John O'Keefe. Was Brian Higgins was with Karen Read and her boyfriend at the bar hours before he died. The state brought in texts between read Higgins to try to show that there were issues in her relationship with John O'Keefe. This was key to the prosecution's case which alleged she killed him because things between them were strained.